This command will prompt for two files and then give a detailed comparison of them. This report is displayed in three columns. Similarities will be listed in the middle column and differences will be listed in the left (for the first file) or right (second file) column. If it says something like “less at 7” for a particular item, that means that the value of the 7th byte of that item in the first file is less than that of the second file. Please note that this feature will only report the FIRST difference (the first byte that they differ) for each item - this will NOT tell you that the difference between two text files is that there’s an extra sentence in the third paragraph of one of the files. There is a commercial program called DocuComp, which does this. What DisKeeper’s file comparison is good for is for listing the differences between individual resources or for a quick identical/difference check.
“Search File for…”
This command lets you search a file for all occurrences of a sequence of characters. Enter what you want to search for and then click the “Open…” button and choose a file. The results will appear in a window and can be printed or saved to a text file.
NOTES:
The search string is not case-sensitive.
The “found at” number(s) show where match(es) occurred, starting from (byte) 1.
The resource fork will be scanned as a byte-stream if it is not a “valid” resource fork.
“Search Disks for…”
This command lets you search all files in the folders and disks you choose for all occurrences of a sequence of characters. Enter what you want to search for and then click the “Save as…” button to create the “search results” file. The Disk Picker dialog box will then appear, allowing you to select which disks or folders you want to scan. Click OK to begin searching.
NOTE: DisKeeper will not display the results of the search. To examine the results, open the “Search Results” file with any word processor or text editor program.
ANOTHER NOTE: The “search results” file is not searched. That would be silly.
“Modify File Attributes…”
This command will prompt for a file and then allow you to modify its attributes (locked, invisible, etc.) with checkboxes. This is good for quickly changing the “creator” code of a file, so that you can “adopt” a file and avoid the Finder’s “application is missing” dialog. These features are intended for “power users” - you should be familiar with file signatures and you should NOT change any attributes that you don’t understand.
“Delete [Data or Resource] Fork…”
These commands will prompt for a file and then set the length of that fork to zero. This can be used to remove formatting resources from TEXT files or to clear parameters (registration information, user settings, etc.) that are stored in the data fork on some applications.
NOTE: Deleting both the data and resource forks of a file will not delete the file - it only sets its total length to zero bytes.
“Erase Free Disk Space…”
This is a security feature for those people who have deleted files and want to completely remove all traces of their contents. All it does is create a temporary file on the root level of the specified disk(s) and keeps writing zeros out until the disk is full. Then it deletes the file.
NOTE: This does not remove any vestigial directory entries - if you are donating your hard disk to say, the Childrens’ Conservative Moral Community, it will make all those deleted “X-Rated Body-Part Closeups.GIF” files irrecoverable, but a directory-scanning utility still may report that such a file used to be there.
WARNING: Absolutely, never, ever, under any circumstances whatsoever, (and I mean this most sincerely) do this to a WORM cartridge or any other write-once media. You’ve been warned.
